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As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls, plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic, and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man. Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant, and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pnball, 1973 is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami...

La obra más exitosa de Haruki Murakami. Un conmovedora historia sobre la juventud, los primeros amores y el dolor que implica el paso a la madurez. Mientras aterriza en un aeropuerto europeo, Toru Watanabe, un ejecutivo de 37 años, escucha una vieja canción de los Beatles que le hace retroceder a su juventud, al turbulento Tokio de los años sesenta. Con una mezcla de melancolía y desasosiego, Toru recuerda entonces a la inestable y misteriosa Naoko, la novia de su mejor y único amigo de la adolescencia, Kizuki.

Siete intensas historias sobre el desamor y la compleja relación entre hombres y mujeres. En su obra más reciente, Haruki Murakami ofrece a los lectores siete relatos en torno al aislamiento y la soledad que preceden o siguen a la relación amorosa: hombres que han perdido a una mujer, o cuya relación ha estado marcada por el desencuentro, asisten inermes al regreso de los fantasmas del pasado, viven el enamoramiento como una enfermedad letal, son incapaces de establecer una comunicación plena con la pareja, o ven extrañamente interrumpida su historia de amor.

NATIONAL BEST SELLER A mind-bending new collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author. “Some novelists hold a mirror up to the world and some, like Haruki Murakami, use the mirror as a portal to a universe hidden beyond it.” —The Wall Street...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER An insightful look into the mind of a master storyteller—and a unique look at the craft of writing from the beloved and best-selling author of 1Q84, Norwegian Wood, and What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. "Murakami is like a magician who explains...

One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving 'real world' of Tokyo, its women and university. In the subtle tension between our appreciation of Soseki's lively humour and our awareness of Sanshiro's doomed innocence, the novel comes to life. Sanshiro is also penetrating social and cultural commentary.

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

A New York Times bestselling author—and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)—delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the remote mountains of northern Japan, where the unnamed protagonist has a surprising...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friend­ship, and heartbreak for the ages. “Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.”—Entertainment Weekly Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels—Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973—that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at...

A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami’s masterworks The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore. At its center are two sisters–Eri, a fashion model slumbering her way into...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Including the story "Drive My Car”—now an Academy Award–nominated film—this collection from the internationally acclaimed author "examines what happens to characters without important women in their lives; it'll move you and confuse you and sometimes leave you...

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami. First published in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan, it was published one month later as a book. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat," a series of...

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up...

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...

Tsukuru ist Teil einer Clique, deren Mitglieder alle außer ihm eine Farbe im Namen tragen. Als er nach der Oberschule die Heimatstadt Nagoya verlässt, um in Tokio zu studieren, tut das der Freundschaft keinen Abbruch. Zumindest nicht bis zu jenem Tag, an dem Tsukuru voller Vorfreude auf gemeinsame Ferien nach Hause kommt, seine Freunde ihn jedoch plötzlich schneiden. Völlig verzweifelt kehrt er nach Tokio zurück, wo er ein halbes Jahr am Rande des Selbstmords verbringt.

Als Tengo seinen komatösen Vater im Krankenhaus besuchen will, findet er in dessen Krankenbett eine Puppe aus Luft vor, die ein Abbild Aomames als junges Mädchen in sich birgt. Er greift nach ihrer Hand, und eine unsichtbare Verbindung entsteht. Fortan wartet Tengo darauf, der Puppe nochmals zu begegnen, doch vergebens. War das Signal nicht stark genug, um die zwischen Leben und Tod schwankende Aomame zu retten?

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public. Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki...

Der Held des neuesten Romans von Haruki Murakami, ein namenloser junger Maler, hatte sich mit den Jahren in Tokio einen Ruf als hervorragender Porträtist erworben. Doch mit der Trennung von seiner Frau lehnt er schlagartig sämtliche Aufträge ab. Er will sein Leben neu ordnen und zieht sich in ein abgelegenes Haus zurück. Dort legt ihm sein Agent eines Tages ein äußerst lukratives Angebot vor. Er soll das Porträt eines steinreichen Mannes anfertigen. Nach einigem Zögern nimmt er an.